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The Metanoia Minute
Monthly Prayer Requests and Ministry Updates November 2018
In This Issue
November Travel Schedule
November Update & Praise
November Prayer Requests
Watch Our Videos
Upcoming Events
About The Casson Family
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Dear Friend,

The older we get, the more we realize how quickly time flies. This November marks the 9th year that I have been on Staff with Mission to North America (MNA). It was November of 2009 when I attended my first MNA event in Philadelphia.

As I look back over the past 9 years it is beautiful to see where God has brought both Metanoia and MNA. T ogether we have mobilized more than 1,500 people to serve prisoners in one way or another. We've seen more than 400 men and women positively affected by our life-on-life mentor ministries, which now span 5 facilities in 3 states. Just yesterday I was talking on the phone with a former mentee who was just praising God for the relationship he had with his mentoring partner and what an encouragement that has been to he and his family.

We could not do the work we do without our prayer partners. Thank you for your continued prayers. May God continue to hear and answer according to the pleasure of His own will!
November Travel Schedule 
  • 3: Mitchell Road PCA, Greenville SC: Mentor Training
  • 4: Clemson Presbyterian Church, Clemson, SC: Ministry Moments
  • 14-16: Fuquay-Varina, NC: Training
November Update & Praise  
  • Our newest Regional Representative, Anthony Rogers, passed his licensure exams!
  • Metanoia is exploring new ways in which we can expand our ability to offer returning citizens assistance in their reintegration.
  • Student enrollment in Metanoia's Correspondence Courses is slowly increasing. We are thankful for these new students who want to study God's Word.
  • On October 30 John Theoharis and I participated in a day-long event with other MNA staff/leaders. Both John and I walked away highly encouraged and prayerfully excited about what God is going to do in the next few years. Join us in giving thanks to the leadership of MNA and for our partnership, which enters its 9th year this month.
November Prayer Requests  
  • This year we have added new staff members. Please pray for each of our staff: John Theoharis, Randy Jackson, Shelly Marshall, Tim McCracken, Steven Howell, Tony Rogers
  • Please pray for John Theoharis, who will be overseeing the mentoring work at Phillips and expanding our re-entry work. 
  • Please pray for Rev. Randy Jackson. Please pray that the Lord will expand the opportunity to mentor more men at Hays, that God will continue to work in the life of R.P., who was a mentee at Walker and Hays but has been released now, and that the Lord will continue to guide Randy in his calling to minister to prisoners.
  • Please pray for Shelly as she continues to see more and more students wanting to study with Metanoia.
  • Please pray for Rev. Tim McCracken and the work he is doing in the prisons in CA. He has a very large field that truly is ripe for harvest! Pray for more laborers.
  • Please ask God to raise up more mentors for each of our locations.
  • Please pray for Steven Howell as he oversees the administration of the mentor ministry at Walker.
  • Please pray for Tony Rogers. Tony is raising his support and will be sitting for Ordination in January.
  • Please pray that God will grant us the financial support we need to make our budget. 
Watch our Videos or Listen to Interviews
MNA-Metanoia Prison Ministries has been blessed with some videos that were produced by Genesis One Productions, with the help of Christ Covenant Church. Andy Caldwell directed, shot and edited the videos, and I think he did a fantastic job. You can watch the videos here:  Metanoia Video and  Metanoia Video 2 . Please let me know what you think. Also, please visit Ligonier.org and watch another video here:  http://www.ligonier.org/blog/metanoia-prison-ministries/

If you would like to listen to an interview by Dan Frye of A Rebel's Cause Radio, you can watch or listen here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSVVOxtDyQM

If you are interested in listening to the radio interview with Pastor Kevin Boling of Knowing the Truth, you can hear it here:   http://www.sermonaudio.com/playpopup.asp?SID=31312142251
If you are interested in listening to the podcast interview with William Hill of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary's Confessing our Hope podcast, it can be heard here:  http://www.gpts.edu/podcast/Broadcast7_(Casson).mp3

In 2017 I was interviewed by Eric Nevins, who hosts the podcast, "Halfway There". You can listen to his interview here: http://ericnevins.com/podcast/halfwaythere/037/
Upcoming Events: Mark Your Calendar!

I thought it might be good for you to be aware of various events that we are scheduling so that you can both pray for us, and attend if you find yourself in the area. Here are the events on the calendar thus far:
Mark, Eliana, Raylene & Joelle
About The Casson Family   
Mark Casson   is a husband, father, businessman, author and PCA Ruling Elder who also happens to have spent over 15 years serving a life sentence in California's prison system. He is the Director of Metanoia Prison Ministries and the Director of Prison Ministry for Mission to North America. Mark is a sought-after speaker who has taken the gospel of grace to high schools, college campuses, prisons and churches. He has a passion for mercy ministry to prisoners that is infectious.

His beautiful wife, Raylene has been a school teacher for more than 20 years and has taught in Bolivia, Canada, and the U.S. in both Christian and public schools. Raylene currently works as a first grade teacher in the Hamilton County School District in Chattanooga, TN.

They have two precious daughters. Eliana is 9 years old and has played in CA, NY, FL, MT, UT, OR, ID, NV, AZ, NM, TX, OK., TN, SC, HI, WI, GA, SD, WY, AL and MN. She loves her little sister, Joelle, who is 6. Their daddy calls them his beloved rapscallions.